Zmd/rug Updater Fix

"rpm -ivh <packagename>.rpm" is used to install a new rpm to your system. BTW, you have to be logged in as "root".

"rpm -Uvh <packagename>.rpm" is used to upgrade an rpm already installed on your system.

If you use "rpm -ivh <packagename>.rpm" and you already have that, or near similar package, suse should warn you & not install it because it might cause an instability in your system. You should then check in Yast for that packagename to see where you are with the version. Decide if you need "rpm -Uvh <packagename>.rpm" to update the package/rpm.

Have fun...
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this makes perfect sense. that's probably why i now don't have a graphic interface and will have to re-install the whole thing. unless there is something else i can do. any suggestions for how to clean up the mess i made?

thanks.

That should be on the install disks. Try searching for RPM in Yast -> Software -> Software Management. Make sure that rpm is installed.
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rpm was installed but I still got the errors. Since I a noob and this is learning for me, I decided to reinstall from scratch. This time I made sure for the software list that Smart would be installed and that RPM was also selected. After a reinstall and following I was able to get the updates to install.


Thx.

jester

i don't see the difference in your two lines. what i ended up typing was:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

is this wrong?
my process did not work, and i assumed that the Uvh was a typo when the Uvh command failed for me.
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Make sure you have the space between -ivh and *.rpm as well.

Just a note to everyone...

-ivh is for installing a package.
-Uvh is for upgrading a package.

However, -Uvh, when it is given a package not installed on the system, will AUTOMATICALLY install it. Therefore, I recommend using -Uvh for everything. That way it'll upgrade the package if it exists already, or install if it doesn't.

First off you’ll need to download the following packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.1/rpm/i586/ :

- Libzypp
- Libzypp-zmd-backend
- Zmd
- Yast2-ncurses
- Yast2-perl-bindings
- Yast2-pkg-bindings
- Zmd-devel
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Useful post, but ...

You should mention that for 64-bit users, the url is different! I wasted an hour before I figured that out.

FMc

its very helpful....tnx

Worked for me, thanks! . I'm in the painful process of waiting the 212 packages to be installed completely. Just two comments for other users:
1) The rczmd command always needs to be run as root in the root directory (\), otherwise fails to shutdown or restart.
2) It was taking so long the process of adding the update server from ftp.suse.org (more than 15 min!), that I decided to use another one. So far, perfect.

SuSe 10.1 on HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook dv1000 Centrino, dual boot using GRUB, Win XP.